Favourite collective nouns
- An amalgamation of metallurgists
- An army of caterpillars
- A bale of turtles
- A band of men
- A barren of mules
- A bevy of beauties
- A bevy of roebucks
- A bloat of hippopotamoi
- A bouquet of pheasants
- A brood of hens
- A building of rooks
- A business of ferrets
- A cast of hawks
- A cete of badgers
- A charm of finches
- A cloud of theoretical meteorologists
- A clowder of cats
- A clutch of eggs
- A colony of ants
- A complex of psychologists
- A congregation of plovers
- A covey of partridges
- A cowardice of curs
- A crash of rhinoceroses
- A cry of players/actors
- A deceit of lapwings
- A descent of woodpeckers
- A dissimulation of birds
- A dray of squirrels
- A drift of hogs
- A drove of cattle
- A dule of doves
- An exaggeration of fishermen
- An exaltation of larks
- A fall of woodchucks
- A field of theoretical physicists
- A gaggle of gays
- A gaggle of geese (on land)
- A galaxy of cosmologists
- A gam of weasles
- A gang of elk
- A grid of electrical engineers
- A harras of horses
- A herd of seals
- A host of sparrows
- A hover of trout
- A husk of hares
- An intrigue of council members
- A kindle of kittens
- A knot of toads
- A labour of moles
- A languid languish of lesbians
- A leap of leopards
- A mass of oncologists
- A mob of kangaroos
- A murder of crows
- A murmuration of starlings
- A mustering of storks
- A nest of rabbits
- An ostentation of peacocks
- A pace of asses
- A paddling of ducks
- A parade of elephants
- A parliament of owls
- A passel of brats
- A peep of chickens
- A pencil of lines
- A pitying of turtledoves
- A plague of locusts
- A pod of whales
- A pride of lions (or a sawt or a sowse)
- A radiance of radiographers
- A raft of otters (when in water; a bevy or a romp when on land)
- A rafter of turkeys
- A rag of colts
- A richness of martens
- A route of wolves
- A school of fish
- A set of pure mathematicians
- A siege of herons
- A shoal of bass
- A shower of applied meteorologists
- A shrewdness of apes
- A singular of boars
- A skien of geese (airborn)
- A skulk of foxes
- A slate of candidates
- A sloth of bears
- A smack of jellyfish
- A sounder of swine
- A spring of teal
- A stack of librarians
- A swarm of bees
- A tidings of magpies
- A trip of goats
- An unease of compromises
- An unkindness of ravens
- A walk of snipe
- A watch of nightingales
This page was compiled with a lot of help from Kreme's Venereal Terms, Chris Geer and Mr Fowler (may they rest in peace) and The Bloomsbury Thesaurus. MANY thanks for their contributions to this site.
For more fun with collective nouns, see also:
- The Collective Nouns page www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
- Boids www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
- Fun with Words: Collective Nouns http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
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